79 Quotes by Edward Bond

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas